Yeah, I guess you could call me that. Today is the first day since obtaining my diploma that I was paid for my writing. Yes, paid. Ricaris, you good people. Did that last sentence include improper structure? The answer is hellz yes. Sorry, had to clean myself of grammar. Guhhhh.
Technology came through for me, and I hope it continues to down the road, much, much further down the road. It is not, however, just technology. This writing thing, it takes work. Money does not come easily, and neither does the perfecting of a skill.
Work, although it is work, can also be enlightening. Karl Marx once discussed in his article "The Alienation of Labor" the idea that exchanging time for labor is essentially exchanging life for goods, very obviously an uneven trade. What Marx might have missed, however, is that if you work, if I work, not only for the compensation, but for a reason beyond it, work can be opposite of alienating, it can be humanizing.
Striving forwards, focusing on something beyond the immediate, gives us momentum to move. Doing for the sake of doing can be of the most debilitating of lives. Doing for the sake of progress, the most invigorating.
I work, and will work, for something more, for something better.
Technology came through for me, and I hope it continues to down the road, much, much further down the road. It is not, however, just technology. This writing thing, it takes work. Money does not come easily, and neither does the perfecting of a skill.
Work, although it is work, can also be enlightening. Karl Marx once discussed in his article "The Alienation of Labor" the idea that exchanging time for labor is essentially exchanging life for goods, very obviously an uneven trade. What Marx might have missed, however, is that if you work, if I work, not only for the compensation, but for a reason beyond it, work can be opposite of alienating, it can be humanizing.
Striving forwards, focusing on something beyond the immediate, gives us momentum to move. Doing for the sake of doing can be of the most debilitating of lives. Doing for the sake of progress, the most invigorating.
I work, and will work, for something more, for something better.
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